One of the main distinguishing features the Wii U has from its predecessor is the gamepad. Nintendo seemed to have decided that two screen gaming was so successful on the DS (and later the 3DS) that ...

It’s not hard to see where the problem comes from. Nintendo has always favoured first-party games and its own cheaper, if quirky, technology, making it all but impossible to play the latest ...

Forget Nintendo’s lackluster January console sales, forget worries about dwindling interest in game consoles in general — Shigeru Miyamoto clearly believes in the Wii U, and he’s thinking well beyond ...

The need for unique games or unique entries to a franchise is a big reason why, just as with the Wii, the horsepower of the Wii U against its upcoming competitors doesn't matter. The games that will ...

Update 03/29/2024 8:23pm ET: Despite my best efforts, I wasn’t able to hunt down the original patent tied to this story, and unfortunately, as is sometimes the case with tech blogging, this news has ...

Although Nintendo is mostly famous for making great games, they also have an infamous reputation for being highly litigious not only for reasonable qualms like outright piracy of their games, but ...

It will be possible for players to turn their TV sets on and off with the peripheral, eliminating the need to have both the controller and TV remote to hand. Nintendo previously demonstrated how the ...

The world of Zelda: Ocarina of Time speedrunning is a wild one. The best of the best have Any% runs down to under four minutes these days, but there's still hope that it can be done faster. And so we ...

A participant at the E3 2012 video game expo tries out Nintendo's Wii U GamePad. The Japanese company is expected to reveal more details about the Wii U games console Thursday, including when it will ...

Some major details have been revealed regarding Pokemon Rumble U, which is due out for the Wii U in Japan on April 24. It looks like Nintendo is getting in on the whole toy craze as the upcoming title ...

After seven years, we have seen Switch controllers of all shapes and sizes. LEDs, glow-in-the-dark, Hall Effect joysticks, the novelties go on. One feature that we were surprised to see on the ...